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Southern Hemisphere Flu Season Bodes Ill for U.S.
Key Points: COVID In today’s Recommendation for Industry, we discuss flu season in the Southern Hemisphere. Read more below. Serious adverse events rare after COVID-19 boosters in young kids. Data collected from two vaccine safety surveillance programs in the first 10 weeks of administration of third doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 to US children aged…
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BA.5 Continues Transmission, but Severity is Low
Key Points: In today’s Recommendation for Industry, we discuss BA.5’s continued transmission and low severity. Read more below. FDA green-lights Novavax vaccine as COVID-19 levels rise: While the FDA has approved emergency use authorization for Novavax vaccine, the CDC must recommend it before it can be administered. The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)…
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Current Status & Trajectory of COVID
Key Points: In today’s Recommendation for Industry, we discuss the continued westward movement of COVID in the U.S. Read more below. BA.4/5 COVID-19 variants now dominant in all US regions. Combined, the two subvariants make up more than 70% of recently sequenced samples, up sharply from 52.3% the previous week. Of the variants CDC is…
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TAG Recommendations for COVID and Monkeypox
Key Points: In today’s Recommendation for Industry, we provide current updates and recommendations on COVID and Monkeypox transmission. Read more below. COVID vaccines prevented poor outcomes in people of all sizes. COVID-19 vaccination protected people of all body sizes from hospitalization and death—although vaccinated people with a low or high body mass index (BMI) were…
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Monkeypox: Steps Businesses Can Take to Keep Risk Low
Key Points: In today’s Recommendation for Industry, we discuss the low risk of monkeypox in the US, and what businesses can do to keep it low. Read more below. Omicron is as much as 50% less likely to lead to long COVID, study finds. The numbers of individuals that were infected with Omicron were more…
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Monkeypox: What It Is and How It Spreads
Key Points: In today’s Recommendation for Industry, we discuss the recent monkeypox outbreak. Read more below. In-utero COVID exposure tied to language, motor delays by 1 year. Infants born to mothers infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy were more likely to receive a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 1 year of age, regardless of whether they were born…
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Defending Against Infectious Disease
Key Points: In today’s Recommendation for Industry, we discuss defending against infectious disease. Read more below. COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy may protect infants. The COVID-19 vaccination has shown through a study performed by JAMA Internal Medicine that it can protect babies for their first 4 months of life. Protection for infants was 33% during the…
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Virus Update: COVID Masks, Hepatitis Outbreak
Key Points: In today’s Recommendation for Industry, we discuss COVID masking and the Hepatitis A outbreak. Read more below. Vaccines lower risk of long COVID 15%, death by 34%, data show. The vaccines were shown to be the most effective for lung disorders and blood clots. Those who tested positive for COVID-19 after vaccination faced…
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Keeping Ill Workers Home Reduces Transmission of Both Infectious and Foodborne Diseases
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss keeping ill workers home to reduce both infectious and foodborne diseases. Read more below. To handle the rise in COVID-19 cases, the U.S. government is again sending free COVID-19 tests to U.S. households. In this 3rd round of free at-home tests, you will receive 8 tests…
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COVID Variants Continue Impacting NE U.S.
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the latest COVID transmissibility data from both TAG’s matrix and CDC’s mapping. Read more below. Today, North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown as it’s acknowledging its first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak (AP News). COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Africa and the Americas. In fact, “16 major…